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Friday, March 29, 2013

Hi this is Marivic....I want to share with you my project using DecoArt paint. It was a little tricky making this project as I am now starting to like digital scrapbooking. So in this page I combined both..

I started with a paper from Kaisercraft from a paper collection called "Base Coat".

I used Deco Art stencil in the background.

Using DecoArt minipot paints. I added the paint to Golden Glass Bead gel. Until I am satisfied with

the colors. I used bright colors for Kay's challenge. I couldn't find my palette knife so I used whatever is handy at that moment...plastic knife. It actually gave the serrated effect and I liked it that way.

Here is the effect I ended up with.

Here is my background page.

And here is the detail of the challenge:

I'd like for you to base your project on someone that just brightens your life. That one person(s) that adds 'color' to your life--that gives your life meaning & makes it all worthwhile. It can even be a pet! Being an owner of one very lovable fur baby I know how much unconditional love & happiness a pet can bring into someone's life--so yes, even pets count & yes it can be more than one person! If that person(s) or pet puts a smile on your face--then create a project in their honor! You do not necessarily have to make it a bright & colorful project--just use the photos as inspiration since they are all lively & joyful photos.

The challenge is to incorporate paint into your project. You can use paint in many ways on your projects--to add texture to your backgrounds, to add random splatters of color, to color embellishments such as chipboard...let your creativity be your guide!

"Since 1985, DecoArt has manufactured one of the broadest lines of
acrylic paints and finishes for general arts and crafts use in the
world. The line includes all-purpose acrylics for professional artists,
crafters, and students. Located centrally in the United States, DecoArt
manufactures numerous specialty paints that are designed specifically
for surfaces like glass, ceramics, fabric, and metal, from its Stanford,
Kentucky production facility"

Product Overview
DecoArt has one of the widest selection of paints and finishes for arts, crafts, and home decorating. DecoArt has a full product line which includes over 25 brands of paint and finishes.

Our products are sold in all major craft chain stores in the United States, as well as having a strong market presence internationally in over 75 countries abroad.

Our Commitment to Quality
DecoArt assures its loyal and new customers that they can use our products with confidence.
All DecoArt products are non-toxic and user and enviromently-friendly.
We make safe products. Our paints and specialty products are made in the USA to federally-mandated and industry wide safety and quality standards as established by the Art & Creative Materials Institute (ACMI). ACMI employs one of the nation's top independent toxicology groups at Duke University. All of our formulas are reviewed and have been certified as non-toxic by this group.

There will also be a random winner who will win a this set of Craft Twinkles Writers:

Rules

1. You are allowed to make a an altered/off the page project as long as you follow the challenge specifications.

2. Projects must be linked up to our linky tool in the sidebar, using the URL of the ACTUAL POST not your entire blog.

3. You may submit as many entries as you want and combine your entry with up to 2 other challenges.

4.It is required that you mention in your blog post that you are playing along at Berry71Bleu TOGETHER with a link back to our blog.

5. All entries must be received by MIDNIGHT EST on the 31st day of the month the challenge was posted.

6. Entries to be submitted via the linky tool at the top of the sidebar ONLY, not by email and not by linking up in the comments section please.Information About Our Challenges

1. Berry71Bleu Challenges are open to anyone, anywhere in the world.

2. Our Design Team do their best to comment on all entries, you can make their job easier by turning OFF your word verification. Try it and if spam is a problem you can always enable comment moderation.

3. Challenges are held monthly and each month TWO winners are chosen. One winner is chosen by our design team, who all vote for the project they consider to be the best,while another winner is chosen by random draw.

4. Challenge winners will always be announced within a week of the challenge closing and winners are then required to contact our Sponsor Co-ordinator, Agnieszka at starhorse@onet.eu

5. Prizes not claimed within 2 weeks of the challenge closing will be forfeited.

6. The Merit winner will have an image of their project featured in

the winners post, together with a link back to the homepageof their blog.

7. Merit winners will be awarded a Winner's Badge to poston their blog - full bragging rights included!

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Today we would like to welcome the winner of our February challenge and our guest designer for March, Olga Vasilyeva.

My
name is Olga, I'm a scrapbooker from Russia. I have been making albums,
cards & other projects for over 2,5 years now. For me it's a way
to unwind after a hectic day as I mostly make my projects at night. Now I
mainly make layouts and cards as I'm a designer in several DTs
(including Echo Park, Memory Box and Creative Creations) and
love to participate in challenges of other blogs. I like different
styles - American, shabby, vintage, etc. But I can't refer most of my
projects to any particular style. Actually scrapbooking is just my hobby
and I devote most of my time to my family. It is not very big. I have
two sons and my lovely husband. My sons are 2,5 and 4 years old and my
husband is 36. He works in a very big automobile dealer company. My
husband always supports me and likes everything I do. My naughty sons
never let me scrap when they are at home and don’t sleep so I have to
create things only during their day or night rest. Before I go back to
work I try to spend all of my time with my family: in summer we usually
go to the seaside (we like the Red Sea), and in winter we go in for
sports. We always try and take our children with us in spite of they are
very small. My family is the most important thing in my life and I’m
very happy to have it.You can find more of my creations at www.olgavasilieva.blogspot.com

Olga created this beautiful layout for Kay's You Color My World Challenge:

This is a layout about two creatures which make my life really bright -
my kids. On the photos they are sitting in a suitcase - their favorite
place for playing "hide-and-seek".
My sons really make my life happy and each day bright so that I can't even imagine my life without them.
I
love to use paints in my projects. Here I used watercolor - I've mixed
several colors and got dark brown and jeans blue. I think that splashes
help to connect the elements, add details to the composition and make it
more complicated.

Friday, March 22, 2013

You Color My World. Let's get creative and use some paint on our projects!

I made my first canvas, a gift for my sister.

My sister loves owls. I had held on to an old Kleenex box that had owls on it and cut them out along with some of the colorful flowers on the box to use on my canvas.

I enjoyed working with the paints that our sponsor DecoArt supplied us. I did a lot of stamping on my canvas and used paints rather then inks.

I used some of the blue Pastel Paint and watered it down to create my sky background along with some yellow Frosted Fun Paint to create the sun's rays. The hearts were stamped on using paint rather then ink and the purple dots were made using some bubble wrap painted with purple paint then dabbed on the background.

More stamping using the DecoArt paints.

The sponsor for our March Challenge is DecoArt.

"Since 1985, DecoArt has manufactured one of the broadest lines of
acrylic paints and finishes for general arts and crafts use in the
world. The line includes all-purpose acrylics for professional artists,
crafters, and students. Located centrally in the United States, DecoArt
manufactures numerous specialty paints that are designed specifically
for surfaces like glass, ceramics, fabric, and metal, from its Stanford,
Kentucky production facility"

Product Overview

DecoArt has one of the widest selection of paints and finishes for arts,
crafts, and home decorating. DecoArt has a full product line which
includes over 25 brands of paint and finishes.

Our products are sold in all major craft chain stores in the United
States, as well as having a strong market presence internationally in
over 75 countries abroad.

Our Commitment to Quality

DecoArt assures its loyal and new customers that they can use our products with confidence.

All DecoArt products are non-toxic and user- and enviromently-friendly.

We make safe products. Our paints and specialty products are made in the
USA to federally-mandated and industry-wide safety and quality
standards as established by the Art & Creative Materials Institute
(ACMI). ACMI employs one of the nation's top independent toxicology
groups at

Duke University. All of our formulas are reviewed and have been certified as non-toxic by this group.

I used a combination of brush-on Glitter paint, Acrylics, Ultra Frost and Glamour Dust.

Tilak is worn on the Ajna Chakra, the centre of forehead - the point at which the third eye or the spiritual eye is believed to open.

The sponsor of our March Challenge is DecoArt.

"Since 1985, DecoArt has manufactured one of the broadest lines of

acrylic paints and finishes for general arts and crafts use in the

world. The line includes all-purpose acrylics for professional artists,

crafters, and students. Located centrally in the United States, DecoArt

manufactures numerous specialty paints that are designed specifically

for surfaces like glass, ceramics, fabric, and metal, from its Stanford,

Kentucky production facility"

Product Overview

DecoArt has one of the widest selection of paints and finishes for arts, crafts, and home decorating. DecoArt has a full product line which includes over 25 brands of paint and finishes.

Our products are sold in all major craft chain stores in the United States, as well as having a strong market presence internationally in over 75 countries abroad.

Our Commitment to Quality

DecoArt assures its loyal and new customers that they can use our products with confidence.

All DecoArt products are non-toxic and user and enviromently-friendly.

We make safe products. Our paints and specialty products are made in the USA to federally-mandated and industry wide safety and quality standards as established by the Art & Creative Materials Institute (ACMI). ACMI employs one of the nation's top independent toxicology groups at Duke University. All of our formulas are reviewed and have been certified as non-toxic by this group.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

We excited today to announce a new addition to our family here at Berry71bleu, Julie Tucker-Wolek.

Julie has taken on the role of our Media Marketing Coordinator.

We are thrilled to have Julie with us!

Here's a little bit about Julie:

My name is Julie Tucker-Wolek and I have been scrapping since my son was born 16
years ago, but really got into it as a major passion about 6 years ago when my
daughter was born. I create everything! Cards, layouts and altered projects!

Friday, March 15, 2013

Hi!
It's Bellaidea today with my new project for Berry 71 Bleu.
I have to admit I liked Kay's challenge "YouColorMyWorld" from the very first moment she told us about it.
Great idea, cool photo, so many ways to participate.
I have "a thing" for air baloons so I just had to use one too.

Thanks to our sponsor, Deco Art I had a chance to use great stencil and lots of paints...
I do admit, I went crazy with colors:)
You can aslo see I played with gesso, stencils, stamps, flowers, lace , my own mists and embossing powder .
Do I have to tell you who colors my world?

Thank you so much for looking, can not wait to see your projects made for Kay's challenge!

March Sponsor

The prize:

The sponsor of our March Challenge is DecoArt.

"Since 1985, DecoArt has manufactured one of the broadest lines of
acrylic paints and finishes for general arts and crafts use in the
world. The line includes all-purpose acrylics for professional artists,
crafters, and students. Located centrally in the United States, DecoArt
manufactures numerous specialty paints that are designed specifically
for surfaces like glass, ceramics, fabric, and metal, from its Stanford,
Kentucky production facility"

Product Overview
DecoArt has one of the widest selection of paints and finishes for arts,
crafts, and home decorating. DecoArt has a full product line which
includes over 25 brands of paint and finishes.

Our products are sold in all major craft chain stores in the United
States, as well as having a strong market presence internationally in
over 75 countries abroad.

Our Commitment to Quality
DecoArt assures its loyal and new customers that they can use our products with confidence.
All DecoArt products are non-toxic and user and enviromently-friendly.
We make safe products. Our paints and specialty products are made in
the USA to federally-mandated and industry wide safety and quality
standards as established by the Art & Creative Materials Institute
(ACMI). ACMI employs one of the nation's top independent toxicology
groups at Duke University. All of our formulas are reviewed and have
been certified as non-toxic by this group.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

My name
is Sandie, and I live in Geraldton, Western Australia with my partner who works
in the mining industry (FIFO), and our two year old son, Jesse. We are
older parents (44 and 51), and also have grown up children, as well as
Grandchildren. I am currently a stay at home Mother, with my previous employment
being law enforcement.

Creativity has been part of 'life' for as long as I can
remember, and it is a journey for me personally that continually evolves.
My passion is papercrafts, though I dabble in a wide range of crafting areas. My
motto is to continually push boundaries and comfort zones, to share, create, be
an inspiration to others, and create everlasting memories. My creative style is
not set in stone, though I tend to lean heavily towards, vintage.

For me
personally, this year I have started a 'new beginning' by researching my
family ancestors - and what a journey it has been so far, I am amazed at where
my family origins come from and find this part of 'life' fascinating. The
information, and photographs I have stumbled upon, has 'coloured my
world', in ways I did not think possible, which ties in perfectly for the
Berry 71Blue challenge this month.

So,
today I share a layout of a photograph of my relatives from my Maternal side of
the family, using the exquisite tag from the Berry 71Blue Etsy Shop, and vintage
and beyond components from Zeus and Zoe.

This
month we are sponsored by Deco Art were sent some amazing products to play with, including
paint and stencils. I had a wonderful time playing with these fabulous
products and will look forwards to using more in the future.

As I am a GD over
at the Berry71Bleu for
March, I used one of Marivic's gorgeous hand-made tags. The detail in this
tag is amazing, and the photographs really do not do it justice.

To
purchase tags - visit 'HERE'.
Also, I used a variety of vintage delights from the Zeus and Zoe
Etsy Shop. Marivic puts together the most amazing kits,
full of vintage and beyond goodness. If you have something in mind colour wise
or content wise, Marivic is also happy to create a kit especially to your own
personal requirements.

I layered the many
vintage elements from my DT kit - including writing paper, note paper, receipt,
a post card, old doily, pattern paper, buttons, lace, and a large key charm. My
kit contained an old pearl necklace, which I (reluctantly) pulled apart, and
adhered along with other beads as a highlight to my layout.

To create my
stencil background, I mixed Deco Art gold
paint in with the texture medium forming a muted gold colour - and applied a
textural background using the Deco
Art
Jacobean Floral stencil. When completely dry, I applied a light brush of
straight gold paint onto the textured surface, highlighting some of the pattern.